--On Monday, 30 July, 2007 07:32 -0700 Bill Manning
<bmanning(_at_)ISI(_dot_)EDU> wrote:
an observation. IETF meetings have a fairly high hit rate on
selecting venues where the hotel is in the middle of
restoration. I've have come to the dubious conclusion that
this tactic is used to get reduced overall rates.
Bill,
I'd guess that it is not a tactic on the part of IETF but on the
part of the hotels. Many organizations have had enough
experience with hotels under renovation to exclude them from
consideration so the hotels, in order to get meeting traffic,
lower rates. They may, of course, also promise that the
renovations will not be disruptive, but we have been told that
story before, haven't we?
To make things worse, the on-site hotel staff often have no
direct control over the contractors who are doing the
construction work. They may beg and plead with more or less
success, but are rarely in a position to say and enforce "stop".
This is just a suggestion (which I have made before) rather than
at attempt to micromanage the IAD/IAOC, but I believe that, if a
hotel says "we are being renovated but it won't cause you any
disruption" we should be responding with "post a performance
bond and pay penalties if there are disruptions". I imagine
that would cause some facilities to rapidly lose interest in
giving us drastically reduced rates to fill up their rooms and
we would at least have a better understanding of what we were
likely to be up against.
john
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